Davis Cup vs. Ecuador

[Mike Cherepov]

> is: Brad Gilbert, Jimmy Arias, Aaron Krickstein, Ken Flach and
> Robert Segeuso. I think it is a good choice, but the only question
> I have is why they didn't pick Eliot Teltscher (maybe he declined?)?

I would also think that Johan Kriek and Kevin Curren ought to
be considered for any fast-surface match.
Kriek is probably a better choice then Krickstein at this
point (even for slow clay), except for he would not serve as
a backup man, I guess.
Gilbert has really picked up the pace lately: does anyone know
if he changed his game in some way? When I was him a year ago
in Chicago he was still playing with a wooden conventional frame
and was kinda "falling away" from his backhand.

I don't even know who Paraguay's first man is (Pecci?)

In any case US squad must make a miracle to lose this one.
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Mike Cherepov

[Jong Lee]

> > is: Brad Gilbert, Jimmy Arias, Aaron Krickstein, Ken Flach and
> > Robert Segeuso. I think it is a good choice, but the only question
> > I have is why they didn't pick Eliot Teltscher (maybe he declined?)?
>
> I would also think that Johan Kriek and Kevin Curren ought to
> be considered for any fast-surface match.

> Mike Cherepov

Waaaait. Did I miss something here? Kriek is still a
South African citizen, isn't he? or did he renounce it as
Curren did, just to "avoid the political hassles"?

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[Mike Cherepov]

> >
> > I would also think that Johan Kriek and Kevin Curren ought to
> > be considered for any fast-surface match.
>

> Waaaait. Did I miss something here? Kriek is still a
> South African citizen, isn't he? or did he renounce it as
> Curren did, just to "avoid the political hassles"?
>

If I am correct he renounced even any sentimental attachment to
South Africa. Curren says that he still feels like a South
African, while disliking apartheid. Kriek has an american wife
and lives in Florida, I believe; Curren somewhere in Texas.

Neither played for SA in DC, so they are technically eligible.

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Mike Cherepov

[Mike Cherepov]

--
"when I was Gilbert" might have been wishful thinking to some
extent; I, in fact, never was him. I think ...

He did change his racquet, by the way, and now plays WB210 or WB215 -
a new 10-angled baby devised by Warren Bosworth and marketed by
Fox.

When I was Borg, we did not have any of those. <- KIDDING.
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Mike Cherepov